Faces of Cancer - Loudoun County Public Schools



Faces of Cancer

Team Summary

Use the information provided in your team’s identity envelopes to complete this worksheet.

Section 1: Family History

Tally the number of people in your team

• who have a history of cancer in their family __________________________

• who do not have a history of cancer in their family __________________________

Section 2: Cancer History

Complete the table by writing in the number of people in your team who were diagnosed with cancer during each period of life. Then list the type of cancer each person developed. If no one was diagnosed with cancer, leave the section blank.

Team’s Cancer History

|Type of Information |Period of Life: |

| |0-19 years |20-39 years |40-59 years |60+ years |

| | | | | |

|Number of People diagnosed | | | | |

|with cancer | | | | |

|Type of Cancer | | | | |

| | | | | |

| | | | | |

| | | | | |

| | | | | |

Section 3: Possible Risk Factors

Go back through your cards and identify possible risk factors associated with the development of cancer in the people in your team. List those risk factors here.

Drawing Conclusions from the Faces of Cancer

Complete this worksheet as your class compiles the data from the Team Summaries.

Conclusion One: Family History

Conclusion Two: Relationship Between Cancer and Age

Conclusion Three: Types of Cancer

Conclusion Four: Possible Risk Factors

Discussion Questions

1. In this activity, all students in the class assumed the role of someone who developed cancer sometime in his or her lifetime. Is this an accurate representation of the risk of cancer among the American population? Explain your answer.

2. What explanation can you offer for the observation you made about the incidence of cancer compared with age?

3. What is the most interesting or surprising thing you learned from this activity? What is the most important? Why?

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Summary Profile of the Faces of Cancer

|Type of Information | |

| |Accumulated Class Data |

| | |

| | |

|family history | |

| |yes _____ |

|(write in the number of | |

|“yes” and “no” answers for |no _____ |

|all teams) | |

| | |

|number of people diagnosed | |

|with cancer |Period of Life |

| | |

|(write in the total for all | |

|teams) | |

| | |

| | | | | |

| |0–19 years |20–39 years |40–59 years |60 and older |

| | | | | |

| | | | | |

| |bladder ____ brain ____ |leukemia ____ lung |prostate ____ | |

|type of cancer |breast ____ cervical ____ |____ |retinoblastoma ____ | |

| |colon ____ |oral cavity ____ ovarian |skin ____ uterine | |

|(write in the number of | |____ pancreatic ____ |____ other ____ | |

|each) | | | | |

| | | | | |

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|possible risk factors | | | | |

| | | | | |

|(list any possibly relevant | | | | |

|factors) | | | | |

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